Pen and pencil holder



(N o Model.)

J. D'IERKS.

By order of court now J. BERNARD. PEN AND PENCIL HOLDER.

No. 604,026. Patented May 17,1898.

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ATENT FFICEe JOHN DIERKS, (BY ORDER OF COURT NOW JOHN BERNARDD OFSAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

PEN AND PENCIL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 604,026, dated May 1'7,1898. Application filed April 29, 189W Serial No. 634,360. (No model.)

To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DIERKS, of Savannah, in the county of Ohathamand State of Georgia,have invented a new and Improved Pen and PencilHolder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is a pen or pencil holder of that class in which devicesare designed to be attached to the apparel of persons and to carry thepen or pencil conveniently for the person using it, so that the pencilmay be displaced from the hand and put in position to be readily graspedagain when desired.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, whilethe claim defines the actual scope of the conception.

drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a rearelevation. Fig. 3 is a top plan, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4of Fig. 1.

The invention has a plate 5 of rigid material. Held in front of theplate 5 are two cards 6, formed of flexible material and secured byasingle endless elastic 7 run through two openings 8 in each card 6 andthrough four openings 9- in the plate 5. A length of the elastic 7 runsin front of each card 6, while the vertical side edges of the cards areheld against the plate 5 by means of the elastic, as shown best in Fig.4. A safety-pin or other attaching device 10 is attached to the rear ofthe plate 5, so that the plate may be held to the garment of the personusing it.

Figs. 1 and 2 show the position of the pen or pencil in my improvedholder. Accord- "ing to these figures it will be seen that the pencil ispassed between the plate 5 and the rear face of either of the cards 6.The endless elastic presses the cards 6 back against the pencil orpencils and causes them to be firmly held between the cards 6 and theplate 5. The pencil may be readily removed, and since the semistificharacter of the cards 6 causes them to retain a slightly-bowed.disposition, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the pen- Reference is to be hadto the accompanying.

cils may be readily inserted in the holder.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A pen and pencil holder having a body-plate of stiffmaterial, two cards arranged in front of the body-plate,and having theirmiddle portions bowed outwardly therefrom, the bodyplate having openingstherein and an elastic band, engaged with the front faces of the cardsand passed through the openings in the body-plate whereby to hold thecards yieldingly against the body-plate.

JOHN DIERKS.

Witnesses:

M. J. COHEN, A. 'O. WINCHESTER.

